The smooth development of Nakata Hideshou, Zheng Zhi, Yang Chen, and Fan Zhiyi in Europe has made Japanese football and Chinese football at the forefront of Asia, while South Korea, another football powerhouse, cannot be reported by their media, because there are no excellent players staying in Europe, they can only focus on the Asian Games football project that has just begun.

Failing to find an advantage in Europe, they can only find it within Asia. More than ever, they want players from the younger generation of South Korea to come out and play in Europe.

At the same time, China, Japan and South Korea almost simultaneously held press conferences to announce their lists of participants in the Asian Games. The composition of the list of three countries is interesting.

South Korea coach Heo Jeong-moo said at a press conference in Busan to introduce the South Korean Asian Games team: "Of the 20 players in the South Korean team, 13 are Olympic players and 7 are overage. Of the overage players, four are professional players for the club and three are army players. The team was formed with an eye to qualifying for the 2000 Olympic Games. Young players are mainly selected from the 2nd to 3rd year of university. ”

When talking about the goals of the South Korean Asian Games team in the Asian Games, Heo Dingmao said, "Our team is not the best team, but it is not a weak team either. Our goal for the Korean team is the same as ever, to strive for the best results in the competition and to play at the best level. ”

Horton, the head coach of the Chinese team, held a press conference in Shanghai, and he said: "Of the 20 members of the Chinese Asian Games team, 14 are players of Olympic age, and seven of them are from the past Jianlibao football team. This group of young players will be the backbone of our Olympic team. After the Asian Games, they will also go to the Asian qualifiers for the Olympic football tournament. The other six are overage players, namely goalkeeper Jiang Jin, defenders Fan Zhiyi, Zhang Enhua, forward Ma Mingyu, and forwards Hao Haixi and Yang Chen. ”

Talking about the goals set by the Chinese Football Association for the Asian Games, Horton said: "It doesn't mean anything to me to be in the top four or to be in the top four. My task is to take this team to play well one game at a time, to fight to the end, to win the championship. That's what I'm supposed to do as a coach. ”

However, when the South Korean reporters got the squad of the Chinese team, the reporters immediately scolded them.

"What a disgusting Chinese, even the foreign players have been recruited, why don't they just take the championship medal home?"

"Look at our Republic of Korea, do we have a recall of players who play in Europe? No, we didn't do that, we still focus on young players in the country! ”

"It's good that they've called back the main core! These cores are overage players! ”

"If this squad can't win the championship, see if they dare to brag about how many players they have in Europe in the future?"

Sometimes, I have to admire the thinking of Korean sticks, they always think about problems from such a strange angle. Don't they have overage players in South Korea? And it's still 7, 1 more than China. The most important point is, do South Korea have players who are famous in Europe?

Nor ......

They are just jealous, jealous that China has so many players staying abroad in Europe, and they are mixing so well......

After receiving the squad from China and South Korea, Coach Troussier, who is leading the Japanese Asian Games team in pre-match training, said proudly: "I heard that China and Iran have sent senior national teams, and we are satisfied that we can reach the semi-finals." This time we focused on the content of the game, not the result. ”

At the Asian Games in Hiroshima four years ago, Japan, who were playing on home soil, lost to South Korea in the quarter-finals and failed to reach the semi-finals. But Trussier remains confident about the future.

"At the moment we are suffering from a lack of squad. In particular, its strikers, the main striker Atsushi Yanagisawa and the under-19 youth team's ace Naoyasu Takahara will represent Kashima and Iwata respectively in this year's J-League championship and will not be able to participate in the training camp at all. Another striker who has been in good form recently, Hiromi Kojima, has withdrawn from training due to a knee injury and will definitely not be able to participate in the Asian Games. ”

"But!"

"Because of that, I hope more talent can come out. The opportunity for those unknown players to prove themselves has come. ”

"We will not recall Hidetoshi Nakata, we will leave the opportunity to the young."

"We also don't recruit overage players because it will also take away from young people."

Three countries, different attitudes, different players. China and South Korea want results, and they also want to train their Olympic players, so the lineup is mixed, while the Japanese team is directly playing with players of the right age, and their goal is to be in the future.

Trussier's words must have offended both China and the Korean Football Association, and his words were full of Chiguo's ridicule. But there is some truth to what he said.

In China, there are actually different opinions. Some football people do not agree with participating in the Asian Games in a mixed way.

Ma Dexing of "Sports Weekly" thinks that such an approach is meaningless, and he wrote in a column in the newspaper: "I can understand the idea of wanting results and training newcomers, but before making this decision, don't you feel very contradictory? The result of the mixed arrangement is actually that the overage players of the national team are the mainstay, supplemented by the national Olympic team members, so can they really train newcomers? Even if half of the newcomers can become the main force, what about the other half? ”

"In this regard, the Japanese Football Association has done a very good job, they have used the Asian Games as an opportunity to train, and next year's Olympic qualifiers are the real finals."

"The Asian Games are not as good as the Asian Cup, not even chicken ribs, why bother?"

"Let Yang Chen and Zheng Zhi play well in the Bundesliga in Germany, let Sun Jihai and Fan Zhiyi play well in the English League, let the newly recovered Li Jinyu play well in the French League, and let the National Olympic age players play well in the Asian Games, that's right!"

"It's a bad deal for the players who have made a big start in European clubs, and it's definitely a thankless decision for them to travel to Bangkok for the sake of an Asian Games and risk being a substitute again......

"If you don't know how to make trade-offs, how can you win the future?"

Ma Dexing may have drunk a lot of Erguotou when he was writing the manuscript, otherwise how would he dare to write this kind of article?

Fan Zhiyi and Sun Jihai were not as lucky as Yang Chen and Zheng Zhi, who flew to Bangkok this weekend to join the national team, while Yang Chen and Zheng Zhi continued to play for Eintracht Frankfurt this weekend......

Facing Bayern Munich at home, Zheng Zhi is very excited when he thinks about it. He hasn't thought about reporting to Bangkok yet, he's just thinking about how to play well at the weekend.

Today Klose came to his house again, this time not to do carpentry, but to find Wu Di.

"Considered it?"

"You should have made a decision a long time ago."